Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The pre-race swabbing (PRS) regime in the Inter Dominion 2022 series continues to raise huge integrity concerns. Here are the horses that were swabbed in the pacers heats at Shepparton last night, listed according to finishing place in their heats and price. Below that are the horses that were well up in the betting market, […]
The Inter Dominion was once the jewel in harness racing’s crown, a battle of attrition contested by the best horses from across both side of the Tasman, a gruelling contest of speed, grit, stamina and guts run over 4 races in 2 weeks for the coveted prize of being acclaimed the best horse in the […]
Heat 1 There were just three runners under $10 in the market: Act Now, Expensive Ego and Mach Dan. Only one of them – the odds on favourite Mach Dan – was pre-race blood tested. Those outside the fave that were swabbed were: The Black Prince – $101.00 Focus Stride – $15.00 Crime Writer – […]
So this Central Queensland horse trainer named Ricky Gudge rocks up to the races at Mackay with a syringe and needle in his kit, and uses them to shoot his horse up with a prohibited substance just before the races. Someone dobs him in the Stewards and he gets sprung, red handed. They charge him […]
Last night trainer Emma Stewart – whose real name is Clayton Tonkin – trained horses raced in 6 of the pacing races on the biggest age racing night of the Victorian harness racing year. Tonkin/Stewart won 5 won of them. He/they/her had 4 of the 12 starters in the $300 000 Group 1 2YO Fillies […]
For those of us who don’t know a great deal about horse doping – which is most normal, good people – the revelations in the FBI drug prosecutions and trials are extremely instructive. In fact when you read them and think about a lot of things that happen here in the Southern Hemisphere – things […]
Illegally doping racehorses is animal abuse in the service of greed. Such corruption threatens the health of racehorses and undermines the integrity of the sport. Today, three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in perpetuating, and profiting from, the mistreatment of animals. The sentences each defendant received appropriately reflects the seriousness of […]
We’ve written quite a few times about Louis Grasso, the corrupt US vet who supplied illicit performance enhancing dope thousands of time to trainers over a decade or more, and was responsible for a whole lot of racehorse deaths along the way too. Louis the Sly got sentenced this week. We won’t be seeing him […]
So the RIB would follow him. And not walk into someone else’s place instead. Or so they think. I’d be checking the roof and the trees if I was them. What am I talking about? The person that dobbed Phil Burrows and Matt Anderson into the RIB. Or the the dupe they assumed didn’t know. […]
Last year the former HRNZ chief Ken Spicer went with the grub Matthew Anderson to a secret meeting with the current HRNZ chief Gary Woodham to talk about a way back into the sport for the drug dealer, con-man and woman bashing piece of shit. News of the meeting leaked to the media. They all […]
